A Wartime Signed Photo Of Oak Leaves & Swords Recipient Ss Brigadeführer Sylvester Stadler Hold while date of production is

while date of production is “1943”

1916 with shell shock experienced during the Second battle of Ypres

Type IV (1914-1916) (silvered war materials

who died on the 16th day of April 1941 and whose Will with one Codicil thereto was proved by the Midland Bank Executor and Trustee Company Limited

arriving in England on December 3

A Wartime Signed Photo Of Oak Leaves & Swords Recipient Ss Brigadeführer Sylvester Stadler Hold while date of production isA photo, measuring 103x147mm, mint condition, of Sylvester Stadler. He signed it in blue ink. Interestingly, all his signatures, including this one, say Silvester, yet every source lists his first name as Sylvester. The photo shows him wearing the Oak Leaves, but not the Swords, and his rank at the time is Obersturmbannfhrer. Footnote: Sylvester Stadler (19101995) was a highly decorated SS officer, winning a Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords,